Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / December 2008

On Dec 1, 1:14 pm, xis2...@googlemail.com wrote:

There is no need to comment... You know exactly who behind the PAD. It
is better to keep Thailand up on their feet. Otherwise Thailand will
be hijacked by the PPP. All I can say is that Thai politicians are
smart. Not like Laos and Cambodia whose King were in foreign soils.

Fajkhaum

palace privy council and was control by ex-PM Prem, also he got hold of
the supreme court that send the last PM to jail and also trying to out
the PPP govt. soon. For the financial support was from the PAD
supporters itself as most of them are business peoples and each donated
a couple of thousand baht. Luckily Taksin wasn't the god-father of Yao
Wa-rak or else those PAD leaders have been death long ago. The
god-father of Yao Wa-rak was from the Chinese Chaoyang tribe and Taksin
was from the Chinese Gyspy tribe which you can find them in Mae-Sai and
some part of Chiangmai, Chiangrai, Mae Hongsom, Lampang, Lamphan and
many northern provinces . The reason why Taiwanese gypsy have the Logan
and Lychee's business in the north of Thailand. You don't find many
gypsy in Issan or  north-east. The southern mafia was control by
Hainanese and the whole of Thailand was control by Chaoyang Mafia.

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Dec 2, 4:14 am, xis2...@googlemail.com wrote:

It was well understood. The thais worshipped their king like a god. Most of
the coup originated from the palace when the king felt his position was
being threatened. The latest victim being Thaksin and now the PPP will be
the next target. If thailand should be "forced" undemocratically to rule by
the rich and elites, the country's poor will rise and go against them when
they are ignored or sidelined. As long as the king is alive, there is no
peace in thailand. The land of low IQs.

Thailand: Bangkok airport siege is backed by higher powers

By Thomas Bell in Bangkok
Last Updated: 10:01pm GMT 30/11/2008

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Who has got the power to hold Thailand - and a good sized chunk of
global aviation - hostage? In the weird and manipulative world of Thai
politics, where the real players hide behind proxies, its not an easy
question to answer.

Some of the most powerful people in Thailand are rarely mentioned in
newspapers. They hold themselves above questioning and above answers.

But a few things are clear. The anti-government People's Alliance for
Democracy (PAD), which has illegally occupied Government House since
August and now occupies Bangkok's two airports, has only limited
support.
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# Thai protestors mass at airports

On a big day their crowds swell to twenty or thirty thousand, but just
two or three thousand is more typical. At Bangkok's international
airport on Monday afternoon there appeared to be only a few hundred
die-hards occupying one of Asia's most important transportation hubs.

The PAD will not disclose their donors, but the protest is known to
have cost tens of thousands of pounds a day for the last six months.
Anyone who turns up gets free food, free iced water and free live
music.

The PAD seems to enjoy complete legal impunity for its actions. On
Sunday one of the group's leaders, retired Major General Chamlong
Srimuang, met with police to complain about a string of mysterious
attacks against his supporters. He was not arrested for hijacking the
country's two most important airports.

Bangkok's international airport carries about 3 per cent of global
air- freight and 100 000 passengers a day, many of them transit
passengers. Thai exporters say they are losing £56 million a day.

The loss of tourism during the Christmas peak system could knock 1.5
per cent off the country's GDP this year, industry leaders claim, and
if tourist arrivals fall by half next year it could cost a million
jobs.

On Monday the finance minister lowered his GDP growth forecast for
2009 from 4.5 to 2 per cent.

It is widely assumed in Thailand that the green light to do all this
comes from senior figures in the royal palace or the army. The army
has refused to intervene. Queen Sirikit signalled her support by
attending a PAD funeral in October.

Meanwhile Thailand's elected government - chosen by the poor but
loathed by the urban and aristocratic elite- has been driven into a
kind of internal exile, holed up in their electoral stronghold in the
northern city of Chiang Mai.

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